Faceless (film)
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| Directed by | Jesús Franco |
| Produced by | René Chateau |
| Written by | René Chateau Jesus Franco Michel Lebrun Jean Mazarin Pierre Ripert |
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Helmut Berger Brigitte Lahaie Telly Savalas Christopher Mitchum Stéphane Audran |
| Music by | Romano Musumarra |
| Cinematography | Jean-Jacques Bouhon Maurice Fellous |
| Edited by | Christine Pansu |
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98 minutes |
| Country | France Spain |
| Language | English |
Faceless is a 1988 French slasher film directed by Jesús Franco. The film is about Dr. Flamand (Helmut Berger) and his assistant Nathalie (Brigitte Lahaie) who lure unsuspecting victims to use their skin to perform plastic surgery on the doctor's disfigured sister - a plot reminiscent of Franco's first film, Gritos en la noche (1961). Hallen (Telly Savalas) is a New York businessman who hires private detective Sam Morgan (Chris Mitchum) to find his missing fashion model daughter Barbara (Caroline Munro). Other elements of the story include a Nazi doctor (Anton Diffring) and a chainsaw/power tool tormentor who are called in by Dr. Flamand. This was Savalas' final acting appearance before his death in 1994.
A former patient of Dr. Frank Flamand (Helmut Berger), a disfigured Mrs. Francoisis (Tilda Thamar) seeks revenge for a botched operation by throwing acid at him but she misses and catches his sister, Ingrid (Christiane Jean), full in the face, resulting in severe burns.
At a photo shoot in Paris, the doctor's assistant Nathalie (Brigitte Lahaie) drugs and kidnaps Barbara Hallen (Caroline Munro) and locks her in a room in the basement of Flamand's clinic. Whilst checking on other kidnapped girls, a scuffle starts with Natalie and Gordon (Gerard Zalcberg), who lives in the basement chops off the girl's arms.
In New York City, Barbara's father Terry Hallen (Telly Savalas) is desperately awaiting a news of his daughter and hires a private detective, Sam Morgan (Chris Mitchum), to go and find her. Once in Paris, Morganvisits a morgue with Brian Wallace (Daniel Grimm) of the Paris police to see a decapitated body, but knows it's not Barbara due to a missing mole.
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